Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

I've never really had a problem with people.

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.

I mean when was the last time we had one of these contract signings... that didn't end... in some sort of horrible physical calamity? So if you wanna cut to the chase, you know, we can flip the table over, we can all start beating each other up or we can at least make this entertaining.

My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.